Purea
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Who is Purea?
Purea was a queen from the Landward Teva tribe and a self-proclaimed ruler of all Tahiti. In 1767-68 Purea and her husband Amo built Mahaiatea, a place intended to be the ritual center of Tahiti.
Purea entered the European imagination as something between a traditional monarch and a queen of the fairies.
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